Hi,

I've been working with a design house and they point out that:

a) my DNN site displays oddly on their MACs [No comment]

b) That the site is significantly in error with regard to W3C HTML 4.01 Transitional. 38 Errors

Whilst I appreciate the overarching concept, I have no idea about the detail of this standard, but assume that if one was compliant, then various comments I get about browser compatibility might go away.

So:

a) Is there a project underway to produce a compliant DNN version? If so, what version?

b) Alternatively, is there a way to ensure compliance and if I do this, is it all worth it? Given that I'm not entirely clear about the benefits?

Any comments would be welcome.

I have a tutorial over on my site on how to get 3.3.2 to produce valid code - http://www.obrienit.se (register to see the tutorial)

I have also worked to produce a version of 4.0.3 that produces not only valid code but is WAI AA compliant - demo running at http://www.obrienit.com

Is it worth it? Some organisations are legally bound to run accessible web sites, there is legislation for this in place in the US and Europe. Sites that validate also run much better in new browsers and alternative methods of accessing the web such as screen readers. They even work on Macs!